When the recent student union elections were held at the University of Calgary, there was a candidate running for a vice president position with a quirky yet neat idea. This person had other platform points, but one of them was to bring, what he dubbed, "Power Towers" to the university. These are universal-charging stations (Presumably USB) with the ability to charge at a "faster rate", while increasing Wi-Fi bandwidth throughout the university...
When Lenovo Canada made a "mistake" of selling an IdeaPad Y410p with an Intel Core i7-4700MQ processor, dedicated NVIDIA GeForce GT755M graphics, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and 1TB hard drive for $279 CAD last week, no one could have imagined it to turn out to be its worst ever public relations disaster ever recorded in the company's history. If you do not know what is going on, we here at APH Networks has the entire story covered live as it unfolded...
From InfoWorld: Git 2.0, the latest release of the popular open source distributed version control system, debuted this week, featuring improved default settings and "low-impact" implementation.
Notice of version 2.0 was posted on the Linux kernel mailing list on Wednesday by Git maintainer Junio...
From PC World: Acer has disclosed a few more details about its first wearable: The wristband is called the Liquid Leap, and it will ship as a package deal with the high-end Liquid Jade Android smartphone starting in the third quarter.
Liquid Leap is primarily a fitness tracker set on a rubberized...
From CNET: If you're a Netflix superfan, Chief Executive Reed Hastings may have just burst a couple of your bubbles: dreams of a Netflix-made streaming-media box and live sports.
In a Q&A session at the Recode technology conference in Palos Verdes, Calif., Hastings said Thursday his subscription...
From DailyTech: Samsung launched its first generation Galaxy Gear smartwatch back in September 2013. The $299 smartwatch launched with a heavily customized version of Android and wasn’t exactly well received by customers.
When Samsung launched the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches — sans Galaxy...
From InfoWorld: Amazon Web Services is making a pitch for enterprises' high-performance databases to run on its infrastructure, launching new instances optimized for the task.
The R3 instance family has been added to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service), which takes care of the administrative...
From PC World: Samsung has raised the stakes in flash storage with a new 1TB solid-state drive based on its newest memory technology.
The SSD is targeted at high-end PCs, and the drive is based on Samsung's second generation V-NAND technology, in which storage chips are stacked vertically. Samsung...
From CNET: Regular readers know my advice when it comes to videogames: wait, wait, wait. The longer you hold out, the cheaper the game will be. In fact, if you wait long enough, it might just be free.
Case in point: For the next few days, Origin is offering Battlefield 3 (PC) for $0. The game...
From DailyTech: Mozilla is now taking pre-orders for its unlocked “Flame” smartphone, which runs the company’s Firefox OS. Flame is aimed squarely at developers and will be available globally.
“We worked with the manufacturer to keep the price as low as possible,” explained Mozilla when talking...
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